Taking a Toll of War on Memorial Day = Moyers and Winship

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Taking a Toll of War on Memorial Day
By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
May 24, 2008 - http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/052308b.html


Editor’s Note: In recent years, Memorial Day – like other patriotic holidays – has been exploited to glorify war, rather than treated as a moment for reflection about war's horrible costs.

In this guest essay, Bill Moyers and Michael Winship argue that on this Memorial Day, Americans should stop and take a measure of the pain, brutality and sacrifice that war exacts:

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We honor our war dead this Memorial Day weekend. The greatest respect we could pay them would be to pledge no more wars for erroneous and misleading reasons; no more killing and wounding except for the defense of our country and our freedoms.

Editor’s Note: In recent years, Memorial Day – like other patriotic holidays – has been exploited to glorify war, rather than treated as a moment for reflection about war's horrible costs.

In this guest essay, Bill Moyers and Michael Winship argue that on this Memorial Day, Americans should stop and take a measure of the pain, brutality and sacrifice that war exacts:

We honor our war dead this Memorial Day weekend. The greatest respect we could pay them would be to pledge no more wars for erroneous and misleading reasons; no more killing and wounding except for the defense of our country and our freedoms.

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